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Tuesday, April 8th, 2008

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 55

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: 15'-20' deep on plastics
      City: Cameron Park

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: I have been taking my kids out and I took a friend who likes to flyfish. Haven't nailed any off the monsters yet, but have got fish up to 7lbs. My daughter got one just shy of 6lbs and my son has a couple in the 4 1/2 lbs range. It should really start popping with some stable weather.
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      City: novato

Monday, April 7th, 2008

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 60

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: The wind was tough but managed to land some toads around white slough. Tossed big baits and some frogs. next week looks good highs in the 80's its on!!!
      City: Lodi

      Tips: Mission Fish (white)
      http://www.swimbaitsyndicate.com

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      Water Temp: 59-60

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished the south delta area with Dan Mathisen. Windy and cold, tough fishing but Dan put us on some good Bass. Boated a 5, 8 and 9 pitching senkos.
      City: Fresno

  • Alameda County
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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Went out and rented a boat with a 0-3mph wind, sunny skies, was unsuccessful in getting any bites for about 2 hrs, senko,swimbaits,jig. continued past bass cove, noticed 2 10lbs suspended above some grass. stuck with the senko, and managed to get a bite-big one. set the hook, fight is on for bout 20 sec. then he desides to jump, spit me out. fish would have went 9 or 10 lbs. owell back to dock to call it a day.
      City: castro valley

      Tips: stick with the senko, swimbaits suck

  • Yuba County
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      Water Temp: 55-58

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: went back to collins today with my son cole and good friend lyle and they along with me got to experience one of the greatest fishing days of my life and the fish of my lifetime (so far) we started dropshoting deep points and brush piles with a few takers then the wind came up so we started chucking huds after losing about five big fish all easily over 6 pounds at about 3:15 on the east side of the lake in about 8 feet of water i hooked and landed the new lake record spotted bass 9 pounds 8 and a half ounces the great news is that after getting her certified and pictures taken she was set free to spawn and maybe break the world record next year she is only 12 ounces shy now you got to love collins
      City: grass valley

      Tips: fish collins lake its an awesome fishery and i lost and had more followers on that huddelston rof 5 than i could count yesterday one we estimated close to12 pounds (largemouth)

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: 59-62

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: It was our first time at Pardee and we had a good time. The wind wasn't too bad until 11:00 then it got bad. We didn't get bit fishing normally but then we started seeing beds and we only caught one, 4 pounder male, I know some people don't think it is right to fish for the bedding fish but I feel it is fine as long as you put them back. Went up the river a ways and saw a cove to the right,to get out of the wind, found probly 25 beds in there. We decided to go around 2:00 but on the way in we saw some calm water to the left of the 5 m.p.h. zone when we pulled into the area it looked like the redlight district there were beds everywhere roughly 100. Saw some huge fish but nothing.
      City: La Grange

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 49 - 55

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: On a houseboat April 2-6. April 2 we fished the afternoon, caught 30+ nothing bigger than 2 lbs but not too many rats. The best day was Friday, 85 fish, but lots of rats. The two largest 3+ came out of running water 5 ft deep. The other days averaged 40 fish. Any worm worked on a darter, jigs, carolina rigs. The majority of fish still in 25 to 30 ft of water.

      Tips: Take a kid, rig up an 082 w/red flk and a chart tail. Texas rig and have em drag it behind the boat as slow as possible in 20 ft of water. They will catch fish.

Sunday, April 6th, 2008

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 59

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Slow start then found fish busting on shad in afternoon. Would not hit spinnerbaits or cranks so put on swimbait and WAM!!! Caught several 2-1/2 to just over 4 lbs. left area and came back 1 hour later and hooked into 3 fish over 5 pounds (largest was 7.5#'s This is the berryessa I have been waiting to see for a long time. It has been quite a while since I have landed this many "hogs" out of this lake (especially in one trip) even caught 2 crappie over 1-1/2#'s on jerkbaits. best 5 went 23-1/2 lbs (Have not done that in quite a while on this lake) THESE FISH WERE HUNGRY FOR SOMETHING BIG! Love this time of year. Clouds & wind did not hurt.
      City: pleasant hill

      Tips: Swimbaits & Jerkbaits HOT item (clear w/yellow on jerks). Castaic swimbaits. water was absolutley clear and could see fish down to 11 feet. This site is having a hard time accepting (uploading) pictures and hope to figure this out soon. (WATCH OUT FOR $25 RIP-OFF LAUNCH FEES AT PUTAH CREEK & MONTICELLO. LET THEM KNOW YOUR DISAPPOINTMENT AND THEN TURN AROUND LIKE I DID AND USE PUBLIC RAMP!)

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      Water Temp: 58

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: This past weekend was a little tougher fishing then my last report. I got to the lake
      late Friday afternoon and headed out for awhile to see how the bass were biting. I
      landed a few bass using brass and glass and a senko. On Saturday I took out Jeff
      and his son Dustin for the day. My plan was to start at the Ranch house and head
      towards the vineyards. We stopped at a few points and tried brass and glass with
      very little luck. The first fish of the day was caught on a R2S crawdad and Procure
      crawdad scent. We continued on to the vineyards in a better frame of mind. At the
      vineyards where we could see the tree stumps in the water, Dustin threw out a senko
      watermelon with black fleck and was hit almost immediately by a bass. We kept getting
      hits and reeled in some nice size bass (see photos). As we were heading back I
      decided to try my favorite cove and it turned out to be a good decision. Dustin got
      very lucky and landed five crappies one after the other. His father and I have to
      take lessons from him on how to catch crappies!!!!!! It was a very enjoyable day.
      Sunday the weather played games with me all day. One minute it was sunny and
      warm and the next the wind picked up and it was cloudy and cold. But that didn't
      stop me from landing a few nice bass and a couple of trout. Bass are starting to go
      to the shallow water and the top water bite hasn't turned on yet but I hope it will
      soon. 'til next week.................................................good fishing!!!!!!!!
      www.fishingconnection.net If you have any fishing stories you would like to share
      please email me at bestguide@hotmail.com or call me at 650-583-3333.
      City: Napa

      Tips: Starting to go shallow to bed,

  • Alameda County
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      Water Temp: 58

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Tough bite for bass on Saturday and Sunday. Son, John, and I fished from rental boats for five hours each day and produced only two bass. On Saturday, I scraped out a nice 3 lb 10 oz bass taken on a black Swimming Senko rigged on a 3/8 oz. Jobe head. The fish came from 15 feet deep off the end of a sunken tree. On Sunday, John landed a nice 2 1/2 lb bass using a black/blue jig right up against the tules in a patch where there is a few feet of depth on the outside of the tules.

      Many casts with swimbaits, lizards, salamanders, jigs, drop-shotted wacky-rigged 5-inch Senko's, crankbaits and buzzbaits yielded no bites. We fished the west shoreline from the dam back to just south of Coot's Landing. It's frustrating not getting bites from the smaller bass which must be there, while trying for the lunkers that are definitely in the lake.
      City: Monterey

      Tips: We did see some large (10+) bass cruising in the shallows, some with smaller bass accompanying them, but no beds were visible yet. If there is any spawning occurring on that side of the lake, it's in the dark zone not visible from the surface. Fan-casting into that zone is what produced my fish.

  • Yuba County
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      Water Temp: 55-58

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: on saturday the 5th of april the gold country bassmasters held there second tournament of the year it took 12.5 pounds to win by rj bennett he waqs throwing wake baits darterheads and senkos on points and deep flats i had 8.8 for second throwing huddelton swimbaits and dropshot worms at the ends of brush piles and on deep points and flats lots of fun fish are moving on to beds
      City: grass valley

      Tips: look for fish on beds fish the deep points still need to go slower

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      Water Temp: warmer

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished water I have nerver tried. Turned out as a great day. Over cast and windy. Looked for wind protected area. I was thinking like a fish. What, Where ,and How?
      City: Richmond

      Tips: White spinnerbait=3lb.Green senko=4lb. Creature2-3lbers. That's enough info.

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: 54-57

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished the middle fork yesterday from about noon to dark. Between the two of us we caught 37 bass. All but 7 were on senko's. Largest was approx 4lbs, most were in the slot, but we had 10 above the slot.
      City: Rough and Ready

  • Westchester County
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      Water Temp: 57 degrees

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: water is still high and clear. fishing for bass with rattletrap, caught a 6 lbs. trout instead. trout are still surfacing. waiting for the water to warm up.
      City: Fremont

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished all day. Threw everything in the tackle box and finally had to give in to some powerbait and ended up with one little lonely trout. Can anyone tell me how to catch bass out of this lake?
      City: El Sobrante

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: took the float tube out to the back ponds. did alright, caught four bass dropshotting robo worms all over. biggest fish went 2 pounds.
      City: livermore

      Tips: water is still to cool for spawn. CATCH AND RELEASE

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 53

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: fished a small bass derby on the 5th, and found the fishin to be slow. phils props told me to expect 30 to 40 fish days, ha, they must have been using minnows. Average angler boated about 12 fish a day on mixed worms and lizards on dart heads.

      Tips: green rubber lizards, dart head worms. depth 5 to 20ft.

  • Trinity County
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      Water Temp: 48-51

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Here are the results of the 2nd Jason Fisher Memorial Vocational Scholarship Tournament. 1st place to Milovic and Richards. They weighed in a 22.26 lb sack that included a 6.41 Lm. 2nd was Sam Hunt and Jeff Olsen with 3 smallies and one LM for 17.61. 3rd was Brian Taylor and Mike Bently with 16.90. 4th was Shawn and Rodney Maples with 4 smallies that weighed 16.35. They also had smallie lunker at 5.30. A little better turnout this time with 12 teams. These are fun tournaments on a fun lake. Come on up May 17th and give us a try.
      City: Weaverville

Saturday, April 5th, 2008

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: 63

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Well, got a mixed bag report. The good news is I caught some nice quality fish. Caught them a number of ways. Beds, d-shot, rip, jig. Hit my big fish, a 6'14 on a bed. There were bed fish everywhere, but mostly 2 pound males. The bad news is that Lake Amador is the lowest I have ever seen it right now and that makes for a very boring, non structure type lake. All the brush and drop offs are 50 feet out of the water. Plus, the moss is horrible already. Most of the beds are surrounded by it making bed fishing a pain. Also, forget fishing any jigs or plastics in the top 15 feet of the water column. As soon as it even sniffs the bottom it is loaded up with that stringy green stuff. I was excited to throw the Huddy and unless you are throwing it 20 feet or deeper be ready to come back with your whole Huddy engulfed in the stuff. I wish Amador would let youi know these conditions when you call up there. Drop shotting worked a little, but most of the fish are shallow and that was still tough with the thickness of the moss. I'm not joking when I tell you that it was really frustrating.

      Tips: Like I stated, not a bad weight day. My best 5 went 19 pounds and it was cool seeing the big fish eat the jig, but just can't justify the money for the water quality.If you go, hope for a reaction bite, because plastics or jigs in the top 15 feet is basically a no go. Out off main points is you best bet. I would suggest going to Pardee.